Posted on April 23, 2019 by Sitemaster
Depression is relatively common among men with prostate cancer. Indeed, it may be a lot more common than we can currently document. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: ADT, androgen, cancer, depression, deprivation, prostae, risk | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 19, 2019 by Sitemaster
Long-term follow-up data from the LATITUDE trial have now been published by Fizazi et al. in Lancet Oncology. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: "high risk", abiraterone, ADT, hormone-sensitive, latitude, metastatic, newly diagnosed, survival | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 11, 2019 by Sitemaster
A newly published article in this month’s Journal of Urology has suggested that being exposed to Agent Orange and getting prostate cancer comes with better overall survival data than if one gets prostate cancer some other way. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: ADT, agent, androgen, cancer-specific, deprivation, exposure, Orange, prostate, survival | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 15, 2019 by Sitemaster
On Thursday, here in San Francisco, Dr. Andrew Armstrong first presented the results of the so-called ARCHES trial of enzalutamide (Xtandi) + standard androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of men with metastatic, “hormone-sensitive” prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: ADT, ARCHES, enzalutamide, hormone-sensitive, metastatic, mHSPC, Xtandi | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 20, 2018 by Sitemaster
Pfizer and Astellas have, this morning, announced that the addition of enzalutamide to standard androgen deprivation (ADT) has led to improved outcomes in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen, ARCHES, deprivation, enzalutamide, hormone, outcome, sensitive, standard, trial | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 8, 2018 by Sitemaster
We have long been bedeviled by questions about some of the short- and the long-term side effects and complications of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, Alzheimer's, androgen, dementia, deprivation, failure, heart, side effect | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 21, 2018 by Sitemaster
New data from the ongoing STAMPEDE trial in the UK and Switzerland has now confirmed that ablative radiation of the prostate itself (debulking of the primary tumor) improves overall survival (OS) in men newly diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer who have a low metastatic disease burden but not in those with higher burden of disease. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen, debulking, deprivation, docetaxel, metastasis, primary, radiation, therapy, tumor | 7 Comments »
